'FRISCO MAIL SUMMAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 January 1894, Page 3

'FRISCO MAIL SUMMAY.

J (By Telegraph.—Presß Association), B THE WTE ). It, LOWELL. ■ A memorial tablet and window to b the memory of Mr James Euasell - Lowell, formerly United States Mini istsr to the Court of St. James, were f unveiled on November the 28 h in the i Old Chapter House of Westminster i Abbey, They were [/laced there by - the subscriptions of his English admirers. The ceremonies at the unveiling were impressive, Among the ■ speakers were the United Stales ! Ambassador, Mr Thomas F. Bayard, ; who delivered a glowing eulogiutn on r the genius and worth of the dead ; stetesmari and pont, and referred ' eloquently to the services of Mr , Lowell, while the representative'.of ; America in Great Britain between i England and the United States, ) BINE BOBBERY. ; Scherz and Floyd, two men from 1 America, who robbed the Bank of i Minneapolis, Minnesota, of 90,000 i dollars, admitted their guilt in a Loni don Court. Tbey expressed a desire i to return to America for trial. The Magistrate committed them for extradition, and were sent to the United States by the b,B, New York on Dec* ember 2. It is understood that' they have already informed the officers where the stolen money is concealed, TEE DANGERS OF FOOTBALL. Last season there wero 22 deaths in England and Ireland from accidents receiving during the game of football, The publication of tho list has excited much comment, the death-roll in the United States from the same cause promises to be longer for the same period of time, AN EXTBAORDJNART HIBCO. The force of stenographers and type-writers brought by the British Commissioners to the conference to take verbatim reports of the proceedings in the Bebring 6sa arbitration were severely criticised by the American Commissioners, who refused the request to pay half the expense, The American Commissioners asserted that the reports were so inaccurate that they could make no use of them, and they notified their British colleagues of the faot. The board of Arbitrators were asked to deoide the matter, but tbey refused. AN ASJERJOAN LOAN. Representatives ef the leading American banking houses, as well as representatives of English banking houses, have joined in assuring press representatives that it is not at all unlikely that the Assistant-United States Treasurer, 'Mr Conrad N. Jordan, who arrived in London on November 25th, is there on a mission to float the American loan which the English and Continental papers have for a long time declared imminent. A HEW OABLK. M, Carnot, bod of the President of France, arrived in Yalpataiso on November 28tb. His object iB the formation of a company to lay a cable between Chili and France.